Usually means: Official order to attend court.
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  6. subpena: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (subpena)

noun:  (Canada, US) Alternative form of subpoena [(law) A writ (“written order”) requiring someone to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony (a subpoena ad testificandum) or to produce evidence (subpoena duces tecum), in default of which the person may be punished.]
verb:  (Canada, US) Alternative form of subpoena [(law) To summon (someone) with a subpoena (noun sense 1) to appear in court, or at a deposition or some other legal proceeding, as a witness to give testimony or to produce evidence; to serve a subpoena on (someone).]

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